Happiness

Man has not learnt to do one basic thing. To be happy!! There have been thousands and thousands of philosophies and religions talking about rules and ways of life, about yoga, about "karma"(which the western world uses with elan without having the slightest idea about what it's all about), about money, the excess and the lack of it. I really dont understand it. Why isnt it there in the capacity of the human brain to experience unconditional happiness. Why do we have to "do certain things" or "follow a way of life" or "believe in something" to be happy? There is no inherent happiness. Man is not programmed to be happy. He is pre-programmed to eat, to sleep, to fornicate, to feel jealous, to want more, to think, to invent, to do a world of complicated things but is never pre-programmed to be happy. Why cant a human be happy just by his own self without any help from anything or anyone? Perhaps the ability to "think" took away man's ability to be happy. Because when he learnt to think he swiftly set about to find reasons to be happy although ideally there shouldnt have been any reason at all in the first place. He couldnt find reasons to be happy so he made reasons to be happy. He made big buildings to make him feel happy. He invented the concept of money so that there could be relatively "more" money or "less" money and hence people would feel happy about this relativism. He did a whole lot of things to simply conjure reasons to be happy, all the while pretending that he really needed those reasons. And finally he actually did become dependant. Hopelessly dependant. Terribly dependant. He finally invented the concept of "we are an unhappy people". And so here i am unhappily writing something in my blog, wishing i was happy!!....and complaining that i am not!!